France sends message to French bashers with 2nd Nobel win in 2014: Thumb in your eye!

October 13, 2014 5:11 PM

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French economist and Nobel Prize laureate Jean Tirole addresses the media during a press conference at the Toulouse School of Economics in Toulouse, southern France, Monday, Oct. 13, 2014. Tirole won the Nobel prize for economics Monday for research on market power and regulation that has helped policy-makers understand how to deal with industries dominated by a few powerful companies. (AP Photo/Fred Scheiber) (The Associated Press)

Seven years after Time magazine declared French culture 'dead,' the country's leaders are rallying behind their 2014 Nobel prize winners with a vengeance.